Arts 7 QUARTER 1:

ARTS AND CRAFTS OF LUZON

(HIGHLANDS AND LOWLANDS)
By: Cherry Joy Thiam-Bodikey
Lesson 1: ARTS AND CRAFTS OF THE ILOCOS REGION
AND THE CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION (CAR)
ILOCOS REGION CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

KALINGA
ILOCOS SUR (Vigan) IFUGAO
PANGASINAN (San Carlos) MOUNTAIN PROVINCE ( Bontoc)
BENGUET (Timbak, Kabayan)
ABRA
 Vigan –
ILOCOS REGION Architecture “Intramuros of
the North”, retains
the Spanish
colonial
architecture along
its narrow and
cobble-stoned
streets known as
Calle Crisologo.
ILOCOS REGION Architecture
These old Spanish-type
houses have huge, high-
pitched roofs, large and
rectangular living rooms that
are made of adobe, bricks,
lime, terracotta, hardwood
floors, and windows of capiz
shells framed in wooden
window panels.
VIGAN, ILOCOS SUR – CALLE CRISOLOGO
ILOCOS REGION Textile
Inabel – a hand
weaving technique
of the Ilocanos that
is produced using
traditional wooden
looms.
ILOCOS REGION Textile
The different
designs represent
different meanings:
the dizzying
“binakol” weave
represents the
waves of the sea.
ILOCOS REGION Textile

Kinarkarayan
Inabel design
ILOCOS REGION Pottery

BURNAY – an unglazed earthen jar with small opening used for storage for water
and rice grains and as container or salt, brown sugar, basi (local wine), and bagoong
(fermented fish).
Designs are simple. Sometimes curved patterns
can be found around the shoulders of the jar.
PANGASINAN (San Carlos) Bolinao mats –
Weaving smoothly woven
mats made from
buri or raffia
leaves.

Baskets and
furniture made
from bamboo.
Lesson 1: CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION (CAR)
THE CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION (CAR)

KALINGA
textile
Kalinga textiles
characterized by
dominant red stripes
and motif of
geometric patterns as
well as nature
symbols interlaced
with white, yellow,
and black fibers.
Kalinga Textile : Characterized by red stripes and white,
yellow, and black geometrical patterns.
The colors of their textile have cultural meanings: red (bravery),
Black (the soil or land), white (flowers of the coffee trees,
Yellow (sand) and green (mountains).

GILAMAT design
Gililing design
KAIN SKIRT design
KAIN – The
southern Kalinga
women wear this
wrap-around skirt
or tapis which
reaches below the
knee, worn below
the abdomen and
when they walk,
one of the thighs is
exposed.
KALINGA TEXTILE
KALINGA BASKETRY

Rice or vegetable basket

This coil basket is perfectly
symmetrical has nice warm
patina. The coil weaving
technique, materials (finely
split rattan and nito vine),
and design are consistent
with baskets made by the
Kalinga tribe
KALINGA LABBA VEGETABLE BURDEN BASKET
USED FOR
CARRYING
VEGETABLES ON
THE HEAD.
KALINGA TATTOOING
Considered as clothing and
decoration because it
usually covers the chest and
the arms. It signifies a rite of
passage from youth to
adulthood, a mark of
heroism, and bravery and
one’s status in the
community.
 Apo Whang-Od
is the last
“mambabatok” or
traditional Kalinga
tattoo artist.
She uses a mixture of charcoal and water
that is tapped onto the sin through a thorn
end.
 On a short coupon
bond, draw a tattoo
design.
Incorporate in your
own art work/creation
the Kalinga inspired
Tattoo designs.
IFUGAO Sculpture
 BUL’ UL

a wooden sculpture that represents the rice

granary spirits.
 BUL-UL

It is used in rituals that are performed to call the

ancestors to protect their rice fields from
pestilence and to as for an abundant harvest
 A carved-wooden human figure with simplified forms.
These are dipped in the blood of pigs during a ritual called
TUNOD which means “planting the seedlings in the soil”.
 IFUGAO
LINGLING-O / DINUMUG

fertility symbols worn around the neck

BONTOC, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE TEXTILE

It is characterized by
the designs or
patterns like the eye,
man, lizard, star,
variation, snake,
butterfly, shield, and
flower (woven and
embroidered into the
garment).
BONTOC, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE Textile

– a "lufid ay sinangadam",
or one of ten types of
rectangular wrap skirts
worn during official or
religious events.
Wanes – Bontoc men’s traditional attire
 BENGUET Tattoo
Tattooing/mummification – the
mummies found in Kabayan
reveal that they have body
tattoos similar to the patterns
found in their textiles.
 ABRA textile
The Tingguians are noted for
their white textiles with
horizontal stripes found in the
edges (like those in the bankudo
or wrap-around skirt) or vertical
stripes in the center (like those
found in the balwasi or female
blouse).
ABRA textile Embroidered and woven
by the Tingguians of Abra.

The design features the

"kuku", the diligent
farmer, the "palay" or
rice plant and the frog
which is their symbol
for abundance and
fertility.
WANES
 Lesson 2: ARTS AND CRAFTS OF
CAGAYAN VALLEY AND CENTRAL LUZON
 BATANES Architecture
The Ivatan Houses are
made primarily of a metre-
thick lime stone, coral
walls and cogon grass
roofs. It has a significantly
lower ceilings (around
1.60-2.00 meters high
only) and smaller door
and window openings to
keep the interiors warm.
Their houses have unique
architectural forms made
up of limestone walls,
reeds, and cogon roofs.
The design and materials
are chosen because they
are strong enough to
withstand the numerous
typhoons and
earthquakes that hit the
group of islands because
of its geographic location.
Vakul – a head
gear used by the
Ivatan women to
protect them from
the heat of the
sun and the rains.
VAKUL
Soot – a rain cape
made from fronds
that covers the upper
part of the body down
from the neck worn
by Ivatan men.
This special clothing is
made up of woven
fibers of the vuyavuy
palm – a plant similar
to coconut.
ISABELA Architecture

Tumauini Church – a
Roman Catholic
Parish Church of
San Matias Apostol.
Baroque style
church built in 1873
found in the
municipality of
Tumauini, Isabela.
Made from red
bricks ornamented
with carvings of
flowers, leaves,
scallops, saints,
religious symbols,
and other fanciful
motifs.
The unique cylindrical belfry of
the church looks like a huge
wedding cake because of its
design motifs like laces, hearts,
and bead
NUEVA VIZCAYA Textile
Bakwat – a belt used
by Gaddang mothers
after giving birth. This
cloth is usually
adorned on the central
portion with white
beads as accents
embellished in
patterns that represent
rivers and mountains.
BULACAN Pastillas Wrapper

Pastillas wrapper –
a paper cutting craft
wherein the women
in Bulacan cut
intricately-designed
patterns to be used
as wrappers for the
pastillas de leche.
BULACAN Pastillas Wrapper

Designs are
different linear,
curvilinear, and
geometric that
depict local floras
and scenes of
everyday rural life.
 Singkaban – the local
BULACAN BAMBOO CRAFT
term for bamboo arches
designed with kayas or
woodshaving.
BULACAN - SINGKABAN
These are used
as decorative
arches that
adorn the
entrance of a
barangay or
town during
fiestas and
other grand
celebrations.
BULACAN Goldsmithing
Craftsmen fashion trinkets from
precious metals such as gold and
silver, and precious and semi-
preciouss stones, pearls and
diamonds. Designs (antique jewelry)
are completely done by hand
because these cannot be done by
machines.
PAMPANGA - PAROL
ZAMBALES Architecture

Olongapo, ZAMBALES
Spanish Gate – one of the historic
landmarks located in Olongapo,
Zambales. Built in 1885. It has
high walls made from locally-
quarried stone connected to the
south gate that faced the
waterfront.
Masinloc, ZAMBALES
The San Andres Apostol Parish
Church – known for the use of coral
stones instead of adobe.
Masinloc, ZAMBALES The front church is divided into triangular
pediment, two horizontal sections and three
vertical ones. The left portion is extended to
form the bell tower.
- the lowest level contains niches for saints.
The second level as rectangular windows
and curve niches of the
patron saints.
- carvings of a medallion and other
geometric shapes can be found on the
pediment.
- the belfry is composed of circular columns
topped by a lantern and a cross.
 Gapan City, NUEVA ECIJA
The Parish of the
Three Kings – a Roman
Catholic Church built in
1800’s. It has huge side
doorways, two standing
images of their patron saints
on both sides of the
doorways, and a mural of the
Holy Trinity on the ceiling, all
of which are characteristics of
a western architecture.
Abucay, BATAAN
Abucay Church
or the Saint Dominic De
Guzman Parish Church –
established in 1587 and
administered in 1588 by
the Dominicans. A
Renaissance Architecture
because of its vertically
single- or doubled-divided
columns, and triangular
pediments. It has a five-
layer bell tower
ornamented with
semicircular arched
windows.
LESSON 3: THE ARTS AND CRAFTS OF CALABARZON AND BICOL REGION
LAGUNA
Carving
Laguna is a
province with lakes and
mountains rich in
natural resources and
fertile soil for farming.
Trees are abundant in
this province, which
inspire woodcarving
artists.
.
 Paete – one
of the towns
in Laguna
famous for
its
woodcarving.
Considered
as the “
Woodcarving
Capital of the
Philippines”.
UKIT – local term for
carving. Paete carvers
usually produce wooden
religious images and
wood panels with
decorative floral patterns
and florid geometric
designs
RIZAL PROVINCE Papier Maché
Angono in Rizal
Province is considered
as the Art Capital of the
Philippines because of
the town’s rich artistic
expressions that include
music, painting,
sculptures and folk arts.
HIGANTES – are
big papier maché figures
of humans that
represent farmers and
fishermen.
TAAL, BATANGAS

Textile
Famous for producing
embroidered piña
fabric, made from the
fibers of pineapple and
woven into a costly
fabric (Piña barong,
wedding gowns and
other formal attires)
TAAL, BATANGAS
Burda – called calado, a
painstakingly made by three
groups of people - designer,
the embroiderer, and the
cutter.
-Most common motifs for
their embroidery are leaves
and flowers, which enhance
the fine, smooth, and
delicate qualities of the
textile.
 Metal works
BATANGAS
Balisong – also known
as a butterfly knife. Its
name is derived from
“bali” (broken) and
“sungay”(horn). This is
a type of knife that can
be folded closed like a
fan and comes in
different sizes.
QUEZON The town of
Lucban is
famous for
their Pahiyas
Festival
celebrated on
the 15th of May
to honor San
Isidro
Labrador, the
patron saint of
farmers.
QUEZON

KIPING – colorful
thin rice wafers
made from ground
glutinous rice that is
thinly coated on
mature leaves and
steamed over low
fire. Once it is dry
they cut them and
use the products to
decorate their
houses during the
festival.
BICOL REGION
 BICOL REGION

Abundant of abaca and raffia fibers which they use as

materials in their arts and crafts like baskets, bags,
slippers, coin purses, and other crafts made from these
materials
THE END
Using a clay, recreate the Ifugao Bul’ul.
Three pictures with caption
Caption
Five pictures
Add a Slide Title - 3
Add a Slide Title - 2
Add a Slide Title - 4
Add a Slide Title - 5